M1A1ABRAMS
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I am gonna check one out if I can find a dealer. I really like the Beech tree stock.
Cost of a Custom Rifle with Glass
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Not really. Some people just really appreciate the finer things in life. To each their own. If you hot rod an old beat up car it may beat a Ferrari in the quarter mile, but which one would you want in your garage?
M1A1ABRAMS
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Not the Ferrari unless it comes with its own mechanic. lol
VLD Pilot
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All the prices on that list are much higher than the "Real"costs I've spent doing this multiple times. I'm not disagreeing with the OP as we live in different places AND I only have my gunsmith chamber and thread my barrels. I do the rest. The closest items on that list to the real prices are the barrels. 350-375.00 for steel barrels. 600-750.00 for carbon wrapped. My last 4-5 custom built rifles were in the ball park of 4000-5000 total with optics. Simple end result is, we all build what we can afford. For those spending 8500.00 on a custom built rifle by a company, great. Good for you and I'm sure the customer couldn't be happier. Personally, I'd be stressed out about spending 8500 on ONE rifle when I can build almost 3 for that price (minus optics). I tend to swap out optics on a few rifles because having 8-10 custom rifles, I can't use them all at one time. Much more economical buying 3-4 very good optics and moving them to different rifles.
Nope. Love seeing people shoot well and talking about what they're using, how they practice etc.
What is irksome is being told, "My budget factory rifle shoots just as good as any custom" without any proof. Factory rifles are more accurate than ever but if they offered the fit, feel, performance and consistent accuracy of a semi-custom they'd be charging semi custom prices. There certainly are factory rifles that shoot great, but a factory rifle that shoots like a custom is the exception, not the rule.
Must admit, there are factory rifles that have narrowed the gap in performance, but they usually have a price to reflect it.
JMB 1911
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let's face it this is not an inexpensive sport! You can buy a lot of factory options that are very accurate. Some folks myself include like things like pretty wood. During a slow day of hunting, you can admire your rifle and think how lucky you are! Born free in the greatest nation in the world with a beautiful rifle and the ability to feed your family wild organic meat that never saw a feed lot or slaughterhouse.
I just wish there were more controlled round feed options. I grew up with a custom Mauser and pre 64 model 70's I just can't stand the way pushed feed rifles cycle.
I just wish there were more controlled round feed options. I grew up with a custom Mauser and pre 64 model 70's I just can't stand the way pushed feed rifles cycle.
I averaged all of mine last night. $7,639.00 fitted
I bought an unfired full setup on SH for $3600 + $1900 for leupold mk5 and rings
Defiance Deviant XM LH
Proof carbon barrel 1:8" 26" 6.5 PRC
Manners T4A
Hawkins M5 Bottom Metal
Triggertech Diamond
Apa Little Bastard
Defiance Deviant XM LH
Proof carbon barrel 1:8" 26" 6.5 PRC
Manners T4A
Hawkins M5 Bottom Metal
Triggertech Diamond
Apa Little Bastard
SDPlinker
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I remember the guy in school who always bragged that his gun had a longer barrel. I dated some of Derringer' ex-girlfriends!
The old beat up car. Because I built it.
Professional mechanic. Retired
Gunsmith. Rank amateur and still working on it.
I have lone peak arms actions and they are very nice, I also have a friend who bought a tikka action put a prefit barrel on it and a chassis of his choosing and a very nice scope, shoots just as good as my stuff, but his action was quite a bit less and he used that money for a nicer scope, if I had to do it over I would go that route also.
I'm starting to wish I'd gone another route because I've been waiting 14 months now on a new build
Custom or customized, are different from my point of view, have both.
Full custom to me isn't an off the rack rig just because it has large price tag.
I pieced a few together a couple of years ago all from brand new parts. I shopped around and it took me about 18-20 months to accumulate everything. My 22BR glass and all, with dies I have around $4000 in it.
Buddy bought a Badrock rifle when they first came out. I shot it a fair bit over the next couple of years. It is no BR gun, but I think it would shoot rocks well.
I finally ordered one in 223/5.56. It has several preferred combinations that shoot excellent, yet I have ran everything from 40 grain to 77's through it and it shoots all of them more than satisfactory for most people.
The Badrocks were a lot of gun for the money.
I am working on a 6CM and will have close to 6K in it when done to my likings.
No adult supervision tends to let me run wild at times.
Full custom to me isn't an off the rack rig just because it has large price tag.
I pieced a few together a couple of years ago all from brand new parts. I shopped around and it took me about 18-20 months to accumulate everything. My 22BR glass and all, with dies I have around $4000 in it.
Buddy bought a Badrock rifle when they first came out. I shot it a fair bit over the next couple of years. It is no BR gun, but I think it would shoot rocks well.
I finally ordered one in 223/5.56. It has several preferred combinations that shoot excellent, yet I have ran everything from 40 grain to 77's through it and it shoots all of them more than satisfactory for most people.
The Badrocks were a lot of gun for the money.
I am working on a 6CM and will have close to 6K in it when done to my likings.
No adult supervision tends to let me run wild at times.
